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lance armstrong doped for most of his career. armstrong told oprah winfrey in an exclusive interview that he used performance enhancers in not just one but all seven of his tour de france victories. he said it was part of a doping culture and in his view leveled the playing field. >> you said we had one ambition to win the greatest bike race. not to just win once, but to keep on winning it and to win it, you had to keep using banned substances to do it. >> yes. but -- i'm not sure this is an acceptable answer, but that's like saying we have to have air in our tires. or we have to it have water in our bottles. >> armstrong did say that he was not doping when had he made a comeback to the tour in 2010. he placed third that year. following the interview, armstrong's cap certificate foundation, living strong, released a statement saying "we are disappointed by the news that lance armstrong misled people during and after his cycling career, including us. lance apologized to our staff and we accepted his apology in order to move on." t
lance armstrong doped for most of his career. armstrong told oprah winfrey in an exclusive interview that he used performance enhancers in not just one but all seven of his tour de france victories. he said it was part of a doping culture and in his view leveled the playing field. >> you said we had one ambition to win the greatest bike race. not to just win once, but to keep on winning it and to win it, you had to keep using banned substances to do it. >> yes. but -- i'm not sure...
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armstrong is talking now is to help lance armstrong. do you still feel that way? >> yeah a bit. but you can tell, it's real. he's very emotional and he's definitely sorry. i don't know. i think it's going to be a hard next few weeks for him, next few months, years. >> i want people -- >> again, he did the right thing, finally. and it's never too late to tell the truth. >> i want people to understand, you are someone who has admitted to lying and doping in the past. you've been on this show. you said, matt, i lied right to your face in the past. >> yes. >> but when you wrote your book and accused lance armstrong of doping he came out strongly against you. and he said, quote -- a statement released by his people, writing a book today about events that allegedly took place more than ten years ago is not about setting the record straight or righting a wrong. it is greedy, opportunistic and self serving. does he owe you an apology? >> for me, he owes an awful lot of other people an apology. i don't need an apology. we've known each other a l
armstrong is talking now is to help lance armstrong. do you still feel that way? >> yeah a bit. but you can tell, it's real. he's very emotional and he's definitely sorry. i don't know. i think it's going to be a hard next few weeks for him, next few months, years. >> i want people -- >> again, he did the right thing, finally. and it's never too late to tell the truth. >> i want people to understand, you are someone who has admitted to lying and doping in the past....
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the second interviewer we saw a more humble lance armstrong. particularly when he talked about the lowest point wch is stepping away from his career of service with the foundation. also, the tough times that his son spent defending his father. that's really the time that you saw him break which is when he tug ted hea-- tugged at the heartstrings of every person watching the interviewer. >> any time i see public confessions, part of me is what do we want to hear? he admits he lied. is there anything he can say that puts him back in the game either with the public or certainly in a sporting life? >> what we didn't hear from lance which everyone wants to hear is a continual apology. i'm sorry. you really didn't feel warm and fuzzy from his interviewer. in fact, you felt cold. he almost felt distant. it was as if he was doing -- >> the third person. >> exactly. everyone a favor by being here. the interviewer also was too long. he should have just gotten right to the point of what he needed to say and ended it. it was really drawn out. and he was ve
the second interviewer we saw a more humble lance armstrong. particularly when he talked about the lowest point wch is stepping away from his career of service with the foundation. also, the tough times that his son spent defending his father. that's really the time that you saw him break which is when he tug ted hea-- tugged at the heartstrings of every person watching the interviewer. >> any time i see public confessions, part of me is what do we want to hear? he admits he lied. is...
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. >>> lance armstrong's admission. why some are not happy with a tell-all interview. >>> welcome back to "news4 today." >> i'm eun yang. >>> i'm aaron gilchrist. >>> we're keeping an eye on the inauguration day. the tickets are booked. there is a big job about to get under way of the we'll tell you what that is coming up on our newscast. >> it is 6:30. meteorologist tom kierein on the storm team 4 weather deck. in the chill with the chilly forecast. >> a blustery wind out of the northwest. it certainly feels like winter now. temperatures are just a few degrees above freezing. it feels like the 20s. the wind has been gusting to around 20, 25 miles an hour over the last couple of hours. in the wake of that winter storm that passed to our south yesterday. let look at the radar. over the last 12 hours, there was that storm. all that area in white was the heavy snow rolled across central, southern virginia. went as far north as salisbury and ocean city after midnight. we've cleared out. as much as 6 inches much of central a
. >>> lance armstrong's admission. why some are not happy with a tell-all interview. >>> welcome back to "news4 today." >> i'm eun yang. >>> i'm aaron gilchrist. >>> we're keeping an eye on the inauguration day. the tickets are booked. there is a big job about to get under way of the we'll tell you what that is coming up on our newscast. >> it is 6:30. meteorologist tom kierein on the storm team 4 weather deck. in the chill with the...
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is america ready for the resurrection of lance armstrong? >> i'm still deal with the legal a ramifications. i think that lance has figured out a way to confess when the statute of limitations is over for the perjury charges so america is not going to feel as if he has actually paid a price. marion jones went to jail for six months. i'm not sure that lance armstrong losing endorsements is the equivalent. >> donny, you are an image guy. what happens to the image once he makes this confession? >> done, over, see you later. i have talked on the show before about what i call the scandal continuum. certain things as a culture we can forgive. and when you -- if he had just doped and said i did it i am comp pet tivg the years of like, the profuse lying, is -- >> the bullying of other people. >> his image is done. no resurrection. >> i don't think there is a resurrection at all, we were so invested in his fame, we were so invested of the not well guy becoming well and seven times, and it was a lie. >> by the way, unnecessary because it would have bee
is america ready for the resurrection of lance armstrong? >> i'm still deal with the legal a ramifications. i think that lance has figured out a way to confess when the statute of limitations is over for the perjury charges so america is not going to feel as if he has actually paid a price. marion jones went to jail for six months. i'm not sure that lance armstrong losing endorsements is the equivalent. >> donny, you are an image guy. what happens to the image once he makes this...
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. >>> this morning, we're hearing more from disgraced cyclist lance armstrong about using performance enhancing drugs throughout his career. part two of his interview with oprah winfrey aired last night. during the first part that aired on thursday, armstrong admitted for the first time to doping during all seven of his winning tour de france races. last night the interview delved deeper with armstrong revealing how hard it was to tell his children. >> i said, don't defend me anymore. don't. >> armstrong was stripped of his tour de france titles and his 2000 olympic bronze medal. he could also face lawsuits from those he sued. >>> it's off to a cold start out there today. >> a winter without winter, really. finally, we get to hundreds of thousands of people coming to town and winter returns. >> at least we were able to see the sun. i was missing it. >> it had been nearly a full week since we'd had anywhere near a sunny day. finally the sunshine made a real comeback yesterday. more importantly, we get to keep the sunshine now through your saturday and really through most, if not all, o
. >>> this morning, we're hearing more from disgraced cyclist lance armstrong about using performance enhancing drugs throughout his career. part two of his interview with oprah winfrey aired last night. during the first part that aired on thursday, armstrong admitted for the first time to doping during all seven of his winning tour de france races. last night the interview delved deeper with armstrong revealing how hard it was to tell his children. >> i said, don't defend me...
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more fallout for lance armstrong after his on-air confession to oprah. making him explain his doping scheme to piers morgan. >> would you care to elaborate on your sophisticated system of doping? >> it wasn't all that sophisticated, piers. i did steroids, human growth hormone, epo and i replaced all of my blood with better blood. am i sorry i did it? yes-ish. ps, no. >> this note has gone viral online after being posted in an australian library, announcing that armstrong's books are being moved to the fiction section. >>> could selena gomez be singing a message to ex-boyfriend justin bieber? calling timberlake's "cry me a river" ♪ cry me a river cry me a river cry me a river ♪ >> making it an even loaded song choice, the biebs himself did a cover of the song back in november after his first split with selena. >>> when this woman finds out she's going to be a first-time grandma, she can't quite contain her excitement. check it out. you're having a baby! oh! >> her daughter revealed she was pregnant by giving her a baby block wrapped up like a present.
more fallout for lance armstrong after his on-air confession to oprah. making him explain his doping scheme to piers morgan. >> would you care to elaborate on your sophisticated system of doping? >> it wasn't all that sophisticated, piers. i did steroids, human growth hormone, epo and i replaced all of my blood with better blood. am i sorry i did it? yes-ish. ps, no. >> this note has gone viral online after being posted in an australian library, announcing that armstrong's...